La Traversée, Eva Jospin

"La Traversée", Eva Jospin's artwork for Beaupassage, was created in 2017 in former warehouses rue de Tolbiac in Paris, as part of a residency organised by Emerige and the Emerige Endowment Fund. Like a large forest buried in the length of the access gallery to Boulevard Raspail (Paris, 7th arrondissement), La Traversée is affixed along the wall, on the right-hand side. On the left side, this forest is reflected by flat poly mirrors. The cardboard forest, artist's favourite material, creates an immense high relief 530 cm long by 280 cm high. Wood, branches, twigs, roots, foliage, tops, trunks, ramifications, leaves, fruit, buds, grafts, bushes, trees, shrubs, stems, mosses... Everything that makes up the mysterious, unfathomable, even labyrinthine, sylvan tangle of a forest becomes, in Eva Jospin's hands, a landscape modelled, cut, incised and chiselled in cardboard."

Attracting attention from the outside, arousing the curiosity of passers-by and bringing exceptional value to the passage were the approaches that guided the design of Beaupassage entrances. The project aims to enhance access through the addition of artistic projects that refer to the typology of each entry: the passage on boulevard Raspail features the work, ‘La Traversée’ by Eva Jospin.

Franklin Azzi agency accompanied technically and worked in collaboration with the artists, ensuring that the works were perfectly integrated into the architecture. A stainless-steel mirror reflects the work of Eva Jospin. By mixing art with architecture, the project promotes the integration of culture into the urban space, highlights the proximity of art with users, passers-by and inhabitants, and thus creates interactions between the exterior and interior of Beaupassage.